Talk about wearing your heart on your sleeve. Aberdeen's Vapour Trails do just that from the opening notes of their latest album See You in the Next World. They venerate the early Byrds and what this trip will be is a skip through the chiming fields of their records up to and including Younger Than Yesterday. I'm certainly not complaining.
If glimpses of latterday influences peek out, Paisley Underground, Stone Roses, Ride, even Oasis when they were good, The Byrds are the obviously apparent common denominator. The band don't bother to disguise their love for the band and the record is all the better for it, a pure distillation of everything that was wonderful about them in their first years.
So many artists, particularly indie ones, have committed pure larceny from this band over the last thirty years that it's refreshing to see someone so nakedly honest over their love of McGuinn, Crosby, Hillman and the Clark(es). See You in the Next World is a lysergic banquet. Watch the Byrdies!
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